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September 23, 2026
Open (Not Ukraine or Iran) Thread 2026-208
News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Iran …
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for anyone interested.. richard werner talks money and banking… Posted by: james | Sep 23 2026 16:57 utc | 1 richard werner talks Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2026 17:01 utc | 2 McDonald’s is serving a sad meal to their investors. Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2026 17:06 utc | 3 Live Federal Budget tracker. Fiscal Year ends on 30.Sept.7 days from now. Revenues have exceeded my expectations by a huge amount. This affects my 2022 estimate of a 2027 insolvency crisis. TBD Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Sep 23 2026 17:27 utc | 5 Too Scents, Posted by: Amalek (ne exile) | Sep 23 2026 17:33 utc | 6 Posted by: mk | Sep 23 2026 17:35 utc | 7 Just up from a nap and see the 5-year as well as the 10-year US Treasuries over 5% Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 23 2026 17:38 utc | 8 Do you know if Treasury uses accrual accounting or cash basis ? Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2026 17:44 utc | 9 Thinking again about b’s link to consciousness, cognition, and the analog, I had a thought that may add to the ongoing debate about human cognition. Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 23 2026 17:49 utc | 10
Posted by: Amalek (ne exile) | Sep 23 2026 18:01 utc | 11
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 23 2026 18:21 utc | 12 @ james | Sep 23 2026 16:57 utc | 1 with the Richard Werner link….thx Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 23 2026 18:49 utc | 14 The Silver and Gold Story No One is Talking About
Posted by: unimperator | Sep 23 2026 18:51 utc | 15 Re: China selling US debt ? Posted by: Amalek (né exile) | Sep 23 2026 18:53 utc | 16 james | Sep 23 2026 16:57 utc | 1 with the Richard Werner link….thx Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 23 2026 18:55 utc | 17 Banning Legacy Media To Create Official State Media Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 23 2026 18:57 utc | 18 @ psychohistorian | Sep 23 2026 18:49 utc | 14 Posted by: james | Sep 23 2026 19:02 utc | 19 US gov‘t debt as of 1500 NYC Tuesdsy; Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 23 2026 19:07 utc | 20 Re Ahenobaras’s comment on China, I have simply described where I see China’s policy in practice. Posted by: Michael Hudson | Sep 23 2026 19:11 utc | 22 @ john 18 Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 23 2026 19:15 utc | 23 The CPC can afford to let a few banks and developers go under. No biggie. The inexpensive new housing units will still stand. Posted by: Amalek (né exile) | Sep 23 2026 19:16 utc | 24 I haven’t been invited to be. Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2026 19:18 utc | 25 @Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 23 2026 19:07 utc | 20 Posted by: SG | Sep 23 2026 19:20 utc | 26 @ james | Sep 23 2026 19:02 utc | 19 and Michael Hudson | Sep 23 2026 19:11 utc | 22 Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 23 2026 19:35 utc | 27 Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 The humiliation continues…. Will she stop by the prison where Maduro has been staying ? Posted by: arby | Sep 23 2026 19:54 utc | 28 https://simplex.chat/ Posted by: Graham E | Sep 23 2026 20:01 utc | 29 Has anyone got an alternate URL for SouthFront.press which has been down since yesterday? Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Sep 23 2026 20:03 utc | 30 Working for me: Posted by: Thurl | Sep 23 2026 20:06 utc | 31 Posted by: Graham E | Sep 23 2026 20:01 utc | 29 Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 23 2026 20:30 utc | 32 it’d be a shame if someone started writing “romanes eunt domus” all over the trumpal arch. Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 23 2026 20:41 utc | 33 Finance and Economic are where I tap out. Posted by: Suresh | Sep 23 2026 20:49 utc | 34 Has anyone got an alternate URL for SouthFront.press which has been down since yesterday? Posted by: Suresh | Sep 23 2026 20:51 utc | 35 apologies if this has already been pointed out: Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 23 2026 20:55 utc | 36 NemesisCalling@23: Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 23 2026 20:56 utc | 37 too scents | Sep 23 2026 19:18 utc | 25—
Mamdani Hosts Trump at Gracie Mansion: the DSA’s Alliance with the Fascist President Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 23 2026 21:21 utc | 39 OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare: Posted by: Menz | Sep 23 2026 21:47 utc | 40 if we learn anything from black people, and we don’t, it’s that suffering is conducive to art. Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 23 2026 21:47 utc | 41 Speaking of Economic models, KJ Noh re China @ the 11min mark onwards. Posted by: Suresh | Sep 23 2026 22:12 utc | 42 back in America’s hearthland, Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 23 2026 22:16 utc | 43 @240 james (previous thread Sep 23 2026 18:34) “i think people would be better off without money and power” I look on money proper as a commodity that has become useful for accounting, no more no less. So to me it is like saying ‘I think people would be better off without copper’ . The rest is how people trade, how whatever form of ownership occurs in society. The ‘money and power’ you talk of is fiat, finance and state authority (for example taxation), I think. The reason smaller community works well, everyone knows what is whose, just out of respect and custom often, without necessity for official title. Larger community pools greater resources, but to organise is more complex. More centralised management is often corrupt, bland or brutish. Posted by: Ornot | Sep 23 2026 22:24 utc | 44 Putin on the TV stopping people from watching “Ghostbusters” (2016), OpenAI hacking this and that, treason in CNN, now FBI files (not the X Files?) leaked, and Bibi running America’s Israel policy also thru the magic of TV, irresponsible journalism like Assange… Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 23 2026 22:33 utc | 45 My thanks to Professor Michael Hudson, for joining us here with his post at Sep23 2026/ 19:11 utc #22 above. [Sorry, I keep getting a dismissive color to my usual link, so I’ve recomposed it a bit.] Posted by: juliania | Sep 23 2026 22:47 utc | 46 14 Latin American countries align with the US and classify cartels as terrorist organizations. Coupled with the news I posted in the previous thread regarding US attack drones in South America, this alignment poses a direct threat to Brazil. The Brazilian government has already recognized this: Government monitors “Shield of the Americas” initiative and views the move as serious. Posted by: Soviético | Sep 23 2026 22:58 utc | 47 Before my nap I watched the latest Glenn Diesen and Alex Krainer which I think is worth barflies watch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvaq0Ymh0Lc Posted by: juliania | Sep 23 2026 23:10 utc | 48 see the 2:18 video at the first/second link. the more they talk the deeper they dig their own graves Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 23 2026 23:34 utc | 49 Thurl | Sep 23 2026 20:06 utc | 31 Posted by: Elmer Fudd | Sep 23 2026 23:53 utc | 50 How the British Crown profited directly from human trafficking The question of slavery and reparations has recently returned to the center of international debate, particularly in Africa and the Caribbean. The conference held in Ghana on reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and slavery, as well as the petition filed by a Jamaican delegation to the British king, engaged in the struggle for historical recognition. The debate has also been brought into sharper focus by an investigation published by The Guardian, which examined the involvement of the British monarchy in the system of slavery and the historical links between the Crown and the trafficking of Africans. More… Posted by: Menz | Sep 24 2026 0:08 utc | 51 Fun! Cornell U will save the student’s AI future.
Now, how does Brave reply when asked, “how many students did Cornell censure or remove for thoughtcrime regarding Israel?”
Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 24 2026 0:09 utc | 52 @ Ornot | Sep 23 2026 22:24 utc | 43 Posted by: james | Sep 24 2026 0:45 utc | 53 @ Menz | Sep 24 2026 0:08 utc | 50 Posted by: james | Sep 24 2026 0:47 utc | 54 have there been any protests on US campuses against Ukraine & NATO’s war on Russia? Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 24 2026 2:06 utc | 55 why didn’t Xi refuse to meet with Trump after his Nazi speech in the UN? Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 24 2026 2:56 utc | 56 Posted by: too scents | Sep 23 2026 17:01 utc | 2“Princes of the Yen” is his seminal work ==> https://youtu.be/p5Ac7ap_MAY ….A must see for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Posted by: snake | Sep 24 2026 3:05 utc | 57 KJ Noh talks about “crumple zone countries. S Korea, Japan, Ukraine, Syria etc. Posted by: Suresh | Sep 24 2026 3:10 utc | 58 The big news this week is the bond vigilantees abandoning US Gov‘t Debt. 5%+ interest rates for gov‘t debt is a signal. Ler‘s see if the trend remains into the next week. TBD. Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 24 2026 3:29 utc | 59 The US presidential administration is preparing a plan to impose a 90-day ban on the export of diesel fuel, Politico reports. Posted by: MiniMO | Sep 24 2026 3:42 utc | 60 Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 24 2026 3:48 utc | 61 Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 24 2026 2:06 utc | 54 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 24 2026 4:05 utc | 62 Truthwire, with Fi & Pasta: ‘Insanity on the Rise’ (& vid) Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 24 2026 4:27 utc | 63 Repost from another thread: Posted by: Amalek (ne exile) | Sep 24 2026 5:12 utc | 64 Seems the Druze living in the occupied heights of Golan are fed up with their Arab brothers and switch to Israel. Al Bundys famous saying Posted by: Ali | Sep 24 2026 6:02 utc | 65 Posted by: Ali | Sep 24 2026 6:02 utc | 65 Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Sep 24 2026 6:31 utc | 66 I am still of the opinion that humanity needs to rid ourselves of all private finance as the first step to insure that oligarchs can never accumulate enough power to control nations like currently. Posted by: fairleft | Sep 24 2026 6:40 utc | 67 Bond market continues under pressure. It’s now becoming more obvious SPR is drained and oil heading to +$120. Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 6:43 utc | 68 osted by: Ali | Sep 24 2026 6:02 utc | 65 Posted by: fairleft | Sep 24 2026 6:45 utc | 69 ….and oil heading to Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Sep 24 2026 7:43 utc | 70 The French and German 10 year yields are detaching from each other. This almost directly means another Euro sovereign debt crisis is imminent. The ECB will once again have to do ‘whatever it takes’. Which will probably result in another significant devaluation of the currency. Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 7:56 utc | 71 “The Ed Sheeran situation is bigger than you think” Posted by: WMG | Sep 24 2026 8:05 utc | 72 Pervert with stage name Jurassica Parka Sentenced to 10 months hard time for child abuse and worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassica_Parka Posted by: Amalek (ne Exile) | Sep 24 2026 9:26 utc | 73 Price of 1 barrels of brent oil in gold grams (year) : Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 24 2026 11:23 utc | 74 (formatting)/Price of 1 barrels of brent oil in gold grams (year) : Posted by: Asian Frog | Sep 24 2026 11:24 utc | 75
Posted by: grunzt | Sep 24 2026 12:27 utc | 76 If you turn your head sideways, the map looks a little like the West Bank. Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | Sep 24 2026 12:36 utc | 77 “Four Days in Ekaterinburg“ Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 24 2026 12:37 utc | 78 Global debt hits $365 trillion, including governments, households, non-fin corporates and fin corporates. This thing could be rolled back to around $200 trillion, to better accommodate for the environment of 5% rates. A lot of carnage coming. Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 12:49 utc | 79 Move along like Michael Tracey and cough cough someone else says. Nothing to see here. Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 24 2026 13:19 utc | 80 I am just getting up and saw this posting title at ZH and am thinking….projection much?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 24 2026 13:20 utc | 81 Really this could go in any thread. Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 24 2026 13:25 utc | 82
Druze arent Muslims, and theyre not Christians wither. Personally I think theyre closer in their beliefs to Christians but they are distinct from both, they often get lumped in with Maronites who live in the same region. But they arent Muslims. Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 24 2026 13:49 utc | 83 $40 trillion currency reset explained. To simplify it, you can imagine what’s going on, as if the system is eating itself alive, inside out. Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 13:54 utc | 84 I believe that AI is a cheap party trick. Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 24 2026 14:29 utc | 85 Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Sep 24 2026 14:29 utc | 85 Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 14:38 utc | 86 Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 14:38 utc | 86 Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 24 2026 14:51 utc | 87 Amalek @ 73 Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 24 2026 14:59 utc | 88 11am Thursday NYC US 3-MO 4,146 US 2-YR 4,891 US 5-YR 5,016 US 10-YR 5,141 US 30-YR 5,433
Posted by: Amalek (né exile) | Sep 24 2026 15:04 utc | 89
‘AI’ which is to say large language models being compared to electricity or the internet has got to be a joke. On the other hand thats exactly the pithy sort of response I expect from acolytes of the ‘revolutionary’ functions of LLMs. The reality that they’ve hit a wall and that further content digestion might be paradoxically reducing model fidelity doesnt exist in these rosy and endless claims of godlike intelligences around the corner. Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Sep 24 2026 15:09 utc | 90 @ grunzt | Sep 24 2026 12:27 utc | 76 Posted by: james | Sep 24 2026 15:27 utc | 91 Fed the AI with charting system screenshot. It’s capable of physically looking at the picture, identifying everything in it, understanding what’s in it, and to advise and rationalize on potential changes to parameters or additions for new metrics and measures for the charts. Posted by: unimperator | Sep 24 2026 15:32 utc | 92 Alastair Crooke talked to Daniel Davis: Posted by: WMG | Sep 24 2026 15:35 utc | 93 Below is a posting title from a Premium ZH piece Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 24 2026 15:57 utc | 94 Before I go further, here is a just now presented Dialogue Works with Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson. But a warning — the youtube presentation doesn’t begin at the beginning nor does it end at the end; I don’t really know how much of the early part has been lost. Hopefully less is missing from the conclusion. So, if somebody has the entire text, please go ahead and repost — thanks very much! Posted by: juliania | Sep 24 2026 16:33 utc | 95 Xi in town to make deals, legal contracts, with his partner Trump, while China and other nations file briefs and opinions in international courts, the legal bodies that their business partner Trump is working to destroy. Posted by: duck n cover | Sep 24 2026 16:36 utc | 96 Banned media outlets allowed back into White House As we’ve been reporting, a saga over media access to the White House has been playing out on the sidelines of the Trump-Xi meeting. Posted by: arby | Sep 24 2026 16:44 utc | 97 commodified LLMs hosted on local hardware Posted by: The Far Side | Sep 24 2026 16:50 utc | 98
Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 24 2026 16:53 utc | 99 #UNGA 81, General Debate, 24 September, 2026 (Day 3) Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 24 2026 17:56 utc | 100 |
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